Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/seb-
Proto-Turkic
Verb
*seb-
- (transitive) to love; to like
Derived terms
Descendants
- →? Proto-Mongolic: *sebki- (“to rest, refresh oneself, relax”), *seb-ki-
- →? Proto-Tungusic: *sebje- (“to have fun; fun”), *seb-je-
- Oghur:
- Common Turkic:
- Arghu:
- Khalaj: [script needed] (säv-)
- Oghuz:
- Karluk:
- Kipchak:
- Kipchak: [script needed] (söw-), [script needed] (sew-)
- Mamluk-Kipchak: [Arabic needed] (sew-)
- West Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
- South Kipchak:
- Siberian:
Further reading
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sebe”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “sev-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 784